It was buzzing in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social today with #WaspLove on full display with a visit from Shona and Tam Reppe and @waspwoman.bsky.social herself! See World of Wasps exhibition before it closes on Jan 24.
January 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
It was buzzing in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social today with #WaspLove on full display with a visit from Shona and Tam Reppe and @waspwoman.bsky.social herself! See World of Wasps exhibition before it closes on Jan 24.
Alison Cree & I were interviewed for an article that just came out in New Zealand Geographic! The graphics are brilliant.
#WaspLove
@zoologyotago.bsky.social
@nzgeo.bsky.social
www.nzgeo.com/stories/ther...
#WaspLove
@zoologyotago.bsky.social
@nzgeo.bsky.social
www.nzgeo.com/stories/ther...
There’s no place like home
All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families. For others, home is a state of mind.
www.nzgeo.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Alison Cree & I were interviewed for an article that just came out in New Zealand Geographic! The graphics are brilliant.
#WaspLove
@zoologyotago.bsky.social
@nzgeo.bsky.social
www.nzgeo.com/stories/ther...
#WaspLove
@zoologyotago.bsky.social
@nzgeo.bsky.social
www.nzgeo.com/stories/ther...
@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social talks about so many fun social evolution dramas at @iussi-nwes.bsky.social winter meeting #wasplove
December 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social talks about so many fun social evolution dramas at @iussi-nwes.bsky.social winter meeting #wasplove
So much #wasplove at the @iussi-nwes.bsky.social winter meeting!! Probably at least 50% of talks/posters.
December 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So much #wasplove at the @iussi-nwes.bsky.social winter meeting!! Probably at least 50% of talks/posters.
Despite all challenges, I'm feeling so grateful for my team & their amazing research progress.
Also, thrilled that Dr. RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social has joined #teamwasp as our inaugural departmental postdoc fellow! #wasplove #strepsipteralove
Also, thrilled that Dr. RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social has joined #teamwasp as our inaugural departmental postdoc fellow! #wasplove #strepsipteralove
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Despite all challenges, I'm feeling so grateful for my team & their amazing research progress.
Also, thrilled that Dr. RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social has joined #teamwasp as our inaugural departmental postdoc fellow! #wasplove #strepsipteralove
Also, thrilled that Dr. RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social has joined #teamwasp as our inaugural departmental postdoc fellow! #wasplove #strepsipteralove
It was an honour to bring some #WaspLove to the #Oxford @naturerecovery.bsky.social last week, in the framework of the natural capital of wasps and their contributions to people. What a fabulous audience 🥰.
Thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for the invite!
@uclcber.bsky.social
Thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for the invite!
@uclcber.bsky.social
If you've ever asked the question: 'What's the point of wasps?' you should watch our most recent #Nature Seminar, 'The Natural Capital of Wasps'. @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner will convert you! youtu.be/ELI_8KkwJm0
The Natural Capital of Wasps. Seirian Sumner
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It was an honour to bring some #WaspLove to the #Oxford @naturerecovery.bsky.social last week, in the framework of the natural capital of wasps and their contributions to people. What a fabulous audience 🥰.
Thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for the invite!
@uclcber.bsky.social
Thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for the invite!
@uclcber.bsky.social
Fabulous talk today by @idrisadams.bsky.social in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social all about why we should all love wasps - especially solitary wasps 🐝! #WaspLove #WorldOfWasps
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Fabulous talk today by @idrisadams.bsky.social in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social all about why we should all love wasps - especially solitary wasps 🐝! #WaspLove #WorldOfWasps
Looking forward to giving this talk later today @naturerecovery.bsky.social!
What better way to end the week than with a dose of #WaspLove!
@uclcber.bsky.social
What better way to end the week than with a dose of #WaspLove!
@uclcber.bsky.social
Wasps are predators, pollinators, decomposers, & potential sources of nutrition & medicine. Join @waspwoman.bsky.social for a talk which will change how you see these under valued creatures. Reserve your seat now, online & inperson with a book signing & drinks oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Looking forward to giving this talk later today @naturerecovery.bsky.social!
What better way to end the week than with a dose of #WaspLove!
@uclcber.bsky.social
What better way to end the week than with a dose of #WaspLove!
@uclcber.bsky.social
I missed this paper before but it’s pretty wild
“Sirenobethylus was probably a koinobiont parasitoid wasp, the unique grasping mechanism at the tip of the abdomen possibly being used for temporary host capture.”
#wasps
#wasplove
#Cretaceous
#amber
#fossil
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
“Sirenobethylus was probably a koinobiont parasitoid wasp, the unique grasping mechanism at the tip of the abdomen possibly being used for temporary host capture.”
#wasps
#wasplove
#Cretaceous
#amber
#fossil
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A cretaceous fly trap? remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp - BMC Biology
Background Carnivorous insects have evolved a range of prey and host capture mechanisms. However, insect predation strategies in the fossil record remain poorly understood. Results Here, we describe †...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I missed this paper before but it’s pretty wild
“Sirenobethylus was probably a koinobiont parasitoid wasp, the unique grasping mechanism at the tip of the abdomen possibly being used for temporary host capture.”
#wasps
#wasplove
#Cretaceous
#amber
#fossil
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
“Sirenobethylus was probably a koinobiont parasitoid wasp, the unique grasping mechanism at the tip of the abdomen possibly being used for temporary host capture.”
#wasps
#wasplove
#Cretaceous
#amber
#fossil
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
I saw them in Brittany & Normandy this year. Didn’t seem aggressive while I was watching & photographing them.
Don’t know if I would go right up to a nest to film them, as I have for V. crabro and V. orientalis, as I have read that they are more aggressive near nests?
#hornets
#WaspLove
Don’t know if I would go right up to a nest to film them, as I have for V. crabro and V. orientalis, as I have read that they are more aggressive near nests?
#hornets
#WaspLove
October 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Thank you for your kind words! So glad you learned new things about the secret world of wasps and look upon wasps with a little more love! #WaspLove
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thank you for your kind words! So glad you learned new things about the secret world of wasps and look upon wasps with a little more love! #WaspLove
So it’s #Invertober Day 12 and I have found my second #AsianHornet (Vespa velutina) record in France in the last few days. This time in the Pays de la Loire.
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
#hornets
#WaspLove
#wasps
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
#hornets
#WaspLove
#wasps
October 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So it’s #Invertober Day 12 and I have found my second #AsianHornet (Vespa velutina) record in France in the last few days. This time in the Pays de la Loire.
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
#hornets
#WaspLove
#wasps
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
#hornets
#WaspLove
#wasps
Looking forward to sharing some #WaspLove at #UnknownWales2025 in #Cardiff today #AmgueddfaCymru.
museum.wales/cardiff/what...
@uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@jimlabisko.bsky.social - your gorgeous wasp photo continues its travels around the world 🥰
museum.wales/cardiff/what...
@uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@jimlabisko.bsky.social - your gorgeous wasp photo continues its travels around the world 🥰
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Looking forward to sharing some #WaspLove at #UnknownWales2025 in #Cardiff today #AmgueddfaCymru.
museum.wales/cardiff/what...
@uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@jimlabisko.bsky.social - your gorgeous wasp photo continues its travels around the world 🥰
museum.wales/cardiff/what...
@uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@jimlabisko.bsky.social - your gorgeous wasp photo continues its travels around the world 🥰
The European #Hornet, Vespa crabro feeding on #ivy, Hedera helix flowers behind our campervan in France.
Ivy is a really important food source for #invertebrates into the Autumn, so don’t hack it off your trees!
#WaspLove
Ivy is a really important food source for #invertebrates into the Autumn, so don’t hack it off your trees!
#WaspLove
October 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The European #Hornet, Vespa crabro feeding on #ivy, Hedera helix flowers behind our campervan in France.
Ivy is a really important food source for #invertebrates into the Autumn, so don’t hack it off your trees!
#WaspLove
Ivy is a really important food source for #invertebrates into the Autumn, so don’t hack it off your trees!
#WaspLove
Asian #Hornets! That’s exciting, Vespa crabro _&_ Vespa velutina in one day in Brittany, France.
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
A pair seen foraging actively in a bank of washed up seaweed.
#AsianHornet
#WaspLove
#wasps
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
A pair seen foraging actively in a bank of washed up seaweed.
#AsianHornet
#WaspLove
#wasps
October 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Asian #Hornets! That’s exciting, Vespa crabro _&_ Vespa velutina in one day in Brittany, France.
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
A pair seen foraging actively in a bank of washed up seaweed.
#AsianHornet
#WaspLove
#wasps
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
A pair seen foraging actively in a bank of washed up seaweed.
#AsianHornet
#WaspLove
#wasps
Here’s one for @waspwoman.bsky.social and all lovers of #wasps & their relatives.
A fallen pine tree in Brittany exposed the root disk. Vespa crabro (European #hornets) have set up home.
As I approached they came out and flew gently around me. More curious than threatening.
SoundOn!🔊
#wasplove
A fallen pine tree in Brittany exposed the root disk. Vespa crabro (European #hornets) have set up home.
As I approached they came out and flew gently around me. More curious than threatening.
SoundOn!🔊
#wasplove
October 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here’s one for @waspwoman.bsky.social and all lovers of #wasps & their relatives.
A fallen pine tree in Brittany exposed the root disk. Vespa crabro (European #hornets) have set up home.
As I approached they came out and flew gently around me. More curious than threatening.
SoundOn!🔊
#wasplove
A fallen pine tree in Brittany exposed the root disk. Vespa crabro (European #hornets) have set up home.
As I approached they came out and flew gently around me. More curious than threatening.
SoundOn!🔊
#wasplove
I found a tiny little wasp (~2-3 mm) under a wet leaf on the lawn this morning (was looking for springtails actually). #WaspLove #Staffs #macro #photography
September 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I found a tiny little wasp (~2-3 mm) under a wet leaf on the lawn this morning (was looking for springtails actually). #WaspLove #Staffs #macro #photography
Still lots of social wasp workers collecting nesting material in our #Staffs garden. #WaspLove #macro #photography
September 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Still lots of social wasp workers collecting nesting material in our #Staffs garden. #WaspLove #macro #photography
Female Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis), leaving her nest hole in our #Staffs garden. They're out hunting early today! #WaspLove #macro #photography
September 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Female Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis), leaving her nest hole in our #Staffs garden. They're out hunting early today! #WaspLove #macro #photography
These Wasps were rocking the New England Aster... literally and metaphorically.
They went at it for quite a while... at least 2 minutes. Long enough that I took photos of other insects and came back to this happening couple.
#wasplove #macrophotography
They went at it for quite a while... at least 2 minutes. Long enough that I took photos of other insects and came back to this happening couple.
#wasplove #macrophotography
September 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
These Wasps were rocking the New England Aster... literally and metaphorically.
They went at it for quite a while... at least 2 minutes. Long enough that I took photos of other insects and came back to this happening couple.
#wasplove #macrophotography
They went at it for quite a while... at least 2 minutes. Long enough that I took photos of other insects and came back to this happening couple.
#wasplove #macrophotography
Nice and damp in the garden this morning so thought I'd do a little springtail hunting. Didn't find many, but DID find this tiny (~2mm) wasp with a minuscule parasitic mite on it! #wasplove #acari #Staffs #parasitism #macro #photography
September 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Nice and damp in the garden this morning so thought I'd do a little springtail hunting. Didn't find many, but DID find this tiny (~2mm) wasp with a minuscule parasitic mite on it! #wasplove #acari #Staffs #parasitism #macro #photography
Despite the rapid onset on autumn, wasps are still building their nests! The show goes on! #WaspLove
Wasps are still collecting wood fibres to expand their nests along #DiggerAlley @rspbminsmere.bsky.social
@waspwoman.bsky.social
@waspwoman.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Despite the rapid onset on autumn, wasps are still building their nests! The show goes on! #WaspLove